> We are planning to migrate our production instance to the Hp
> 64-bit integrity line. We would to run our QA and Dev
> instance on the less expensive Opteron blade servers all
> using red hat 4.0.
>>>>>> Will I be able to make homogenous system copy of my
> production instance to my QA instance?
If you use Linux you can do that. (Linux on Itanium-2 is Little Endian) - if
you use HP-UX you need to do those copies via R3load (HP-UX/IA64 is Big
Endian).
BTW: Opteron is MUCH faster than IA64 - we will migrate our production
system (SLES 9 on a rx4640) to Opteron :)
Greetz,
SIEGENIA-AUBI KG
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